Khrushchev Reveals. Bias Against
Jews as Nation, Interview Reports
Fruit Juice Sent
to Aid Refugees
Ghetto Survivor Designs JDC Seal
.
A new seal, in the shape of a
three - branched candelabrum,
has been designed for the Joint
Distribution Committee by Mor-
ris Wyszogrod, young Polish-
born graphic artist who is a sur-
vivor of the Warsaw ghetto and
eleven German concentration
camps.
TEL AVIV — Two thou-
sand cans of fruit juice were
NEW YORK (JTA)—Russian gion would become a hostile
Communist Party boss Nikita center against the Soviet Union.
shipped by air to Vienna
Tuesday, the gift of Youth
Khrushchev distrusts the Jews The Communist boss also ad-
Aliyah to Hungarian child
of the Soviet Union and made mitted that Solomon Lazowski,
refugees now in Austria. The
no bones about concealing his Moscow leader of the Red Trade
shipment was made in re-
feelings during a two-hour Union International, had been
sponse to a UNICEF call for
meeting he had in Moscow re- liquidated "innocently" because
aid.
cently with a delegation repre- he had allegedly been involved
El Al, the Israel airline,
senting the Canadian Progres- in the demand by Soviet Jewish
announced Tuesday reduced
sive Labor Party, the New York writers that Jews be permitted
freight rates on aid ship-
Yiddish Communist daily, Morn- to return to the Crimean settle-
ments to Hungary and for
ing Freiheit, disclosed. ments from which they had
Hungarian refugees.
The paper carried a report of been evacuated when the Nazis
the meeting in Khrushchev's of- approached the territory.
fice by J. B. Salzberg, a mem- In denying that he was an
Red Cross Reports
ber of the Canadian delegation, anti-Semite and that the, Com-
who said that the session dealt munist Party in Russia pursues on Jews Held by Egypt
primarily with the question of an anti-Jewish policy, 'thrush-
WASHINGTON (JTA)—State-
treatment of the Jews in the chev said his own daughter-in-
USSR. Khrushchev, he said, at- law was Jewish and that many less Jews held in Egyptian in-
tempted to prove that present Jews occupy high positions in ternment camps have been in-
Soviet policy toward the Jews the Soviet Union today. At the terviewed by representatives of
accords with Communist Party same time he stressed his oppo- the International Committee of
sitian to permitting Jews in the Red Cross, the American
theory on national minorities.
Red Cross made known.
"To my regret, however," Russia to have their own
A Red Cross spokesman said
Salzberg declared, "I must say schools. However, he enumerat-
that his arguments impressed ed the following "negative as- the organization received re-
ports from the International
me to the contrary, and our pests" of Soviet Jewry:
1. Of the thousands of Soviet Committee of the Red Cross in
differences of opinion emerged
tourists abroad, only three Geneva -t hat many interned
in open nakedness."
stateless Jews and interned
Khrushchev admitted in the were Jews.
course of the conversation, Salz- - 2. During the incorporation of British civilians in separate
camps have held their first
berg reported, that he agreed a part of Romania into the
conversation with delegates of
with Stalin that the Crimea, USSR, many Jews chose to go
Red Cross. More visits will
where there were many Jewish to "reactionary" Romania the follow
to continue talks and
settlements prior to the occupa- rather than to remain an the distribute relief supplies, the
spot
and
became
Soviet
citizens.
tion of that territory by the
spokesman said.
Nazis in World War II, should
3. Wherever a Jew settles, he
It is believed that some of
no longer be a center for Jewish immediately establishes a syna-
the British interned civilians are
colonization. This attitude, he gogue.
of the Jewish faith, but no
said, was motivated by the fear
Salzberg concluded his report
that in case of war the re- with an expression of concern figures indicating a breakdown
by religion were available. The
over Khrushchev's opinions an Red Cross statistics put the num-
Jews. "They express prejudice ber of stateless Jews in intern-
against the Jews as a nation," ment at 280 and the total of
he emphasized, and remind us British at 474.
slightly of Stalin's approach to
certain national minorities dur-
ing the war whom he deported
because of the - sins of indi-
viduals."
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Wyszogrod was captured during
the ghetto uprising in 1943 and
deported to the Maidanek con-
centration camp.
He was subsequently shifted
to other concentration camps,
surviving in a number of in-
stances because the camp com-
mander wanted to avail himself
of Mr. Wyszogrod's talent for
painting and caricature. He was
liberated from the Theresien-
stadt camp by the Russian army
in 1945. After liberation he re-
I turned to Poland, was employed
, by the JDC in Warsaw and la-
ter at JDC European headquar-
ters in Paris. He came to the
U. S. in 1947 on a student visa
with JDC's assistance, studied
at Pratt Institute, New York,
was graduated in 1950 with hon-
ors and in 1954 became an Am-
erican citizen.
RES`2V.E•'El!P•PECONSIR•CTION
The JDC seal, which includes
the words "Rescue, Relief, Re-
construction," was first present-
ed publicly at the 42nd annual
meeting of the agency in New
York. JDC, which was founded
in 1914, has aided nearly 4,000,-
000 men, women and children in
more than 70 countries. Funds
for JDC's overseas programs
are provided chiefly by Ameri-
can Jewry through the United
Jewish Appeal.
Mr. Wyszogrod, who was born
in Warsaw in 1920, graduated
from the Polish Institute of
Graphic Arts in 1939 just be-
fore the war broke out. Caught
in the Warsaw ghetto when the
Nazis conquered Poland, Mr.
2 Reports Reveal
Mass Deportations
of Jews in Russia
VIENNA (JTA) — Several
thousand Jews have been de-
ported by the Soviet authorities
from the Ukraine and the Baltic
states to Siberia during the last
few weeks, diplomatic sources
reported. The deportations start-
ed about a month ago, they said.
Similar reports were here
from Warsaw where Jews have
received pleas from relatives in
the Ukraine to make an effort
to bring them to Poland. Many
of the deported Jews claim
Polish citizenship since they
were born in the section of
Poland which was annexed by
the Soviet Union after World
War II.
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NEW YORK (JTA)—Siobhan.
McKenna, the spirited Irish ac-
tress, scored another success this
week when she convinced a TV
audience that she had been mis-
understood in impromptu re-
marks that had been interpreted
as being anti-Jewish.
It all came about when Miss
McKenna appeared on "Night
Beat," a late-night commentary
show on Station WABD here,
and was asked by Mike Wallace,
conductor of the _program, about
the Jews in Ireland.
The actress said there was
nothing phenomenal about the
Mayor of Dublin being Jewish,
explaining, "he's an Irishman,
you see." She said in response
to further questions that there
were Jewish communities in
Cork and Dublin, "but not any-
where else in Ireland." The
Jews there, she said, "have all
the businesses. Maybe that's
why there's an economic depres-
sion elsewhere."
That remark, Wallace told a
subsequent audience, brought in
more than 500 protests. Miss
McKenna insisted on making a
second appearance to clarify her
remarks. She explained that she
meant, in essence, that the Jews
should be active elsewhere in
Ireland, too. And then, her voice
tense and throbbing, she said:
"I was quite shocked to learn
that what I said not only hurt
some people but that there was
thought there these remarks by
me were meant as an insult to
the Jewish people. Exactly the
apposite is true. I am about as
anti-Semitic as the Chief Rabbi
of Israel—who is Irish."
Station WABD reported a
flood of calls at its switchboard
from viewers who wanted to
congratulate Miss McKenna.
Canadian Jewry Buys
$14,040,000 in Israel Bonds
WINES & CHAMPAGNE,IN'C
FARMINGTON, MICHIGAN
MONTREAL, (JTA)—Canadi-
an Jews have bought a total
of $14,000,000 worth of Israel
bonds, Samuel Bronfman, presi-
dent of the Canadian Jewish
Congress, announced.
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